The missing link in your fitness program

I spent some time last night hanging out with Google.

I do this on occasion, probably once a quarter. I just sit down with my laptop and start searching for various key terms and phrases related to health, wellness, fitness, and nutrition. Sometimes it’s the buzzwords I’ve been hearing from clients and other times it’s just me typing in the classics to see what shows up on the first results page.

Last night I tried the phrase “Fitness for beginners”, just curious to see what would show up.

A casual 291,000,000 answers popped up.

Client Conversations Worth Sharing

Colleagues who write publicly have always told me the best writing topics are right under your nose.

Your own struggles and/or successes.

Interests you may have within the scope of your writing.

And the one that brings the best gems, the questions the people you work with ask.

I had a couple conversations last week that were 1) amazing questions from my clients and 2) questions that often get asked and I think a lot of people who read this newsletter would like the answers to.

So without much more, here we go…

Nutrition Strategies That Stick

I came into the fitness industry as a Coach who worked exclusively with kids ages 7-12. This age group isn’t immune to many of the same requests as their adult counterparts...the number one request was ‘can you talk to my kid about nutritional choices’.

Yes, this request was made for 7-12 year olds.

Day in and day out my sessions were filled with more fun than science and more loose strategies than black and white direction.As my time in fitness has grown, surprisingly, not much has changed- specifically on the ‘loose strategies’ section.

5 Things I do, and do not care about in my fitness any more

“If you could do one movement for the rest of your life, what would it be?”

Rather than answer that question in black and white format, I always find myself thinking about how I would answer that question 5 years ago versus now. That thought process always takes me down the rabbit hole of what I care about in my training day, versus a previous time.

So that’s what today’s newsletter is about...5 things I don’t care about (as much) any more and 5 things I care about (a lot more) today than in years past.

3 Thoughts on Fitness and Nutrition (May Edition)

It’s that time again. Time to dive into the notes app on my phone and pull out the 3 things that didn’t have the horsepower to become a full blown newsletter article.

The review on these 3 things are typically positive and they definitely offer some food for thought.

Without further adieu, May’s 3 things…

The Most Important Goal

As you can tell by the sporadic send times of this newsletter, my routine has been in flux. This feeling is something 100% of the people reading this can relate with.

When your routine changes, when the day to day or week to week sequencing of events starts to be altered, we often try to hold on to the normalcy of events.

When your once productive time at work is replaced with meetings, when your lunch time or post-work gym session is replaced with a new family event. When you no longer can fit the morning workout in. The schedule flips, but it’s all event driven.

I think you get my point here.